Shifting population patterns, as in Japan with its aging society and low birthrate, are greatly changing medical care, and these changes are in turn impacting hospital architecture.
Rather than designing all hospitals with cookie-cutter uniformity, the need today is for diversity matching the healthcare situation in each community.
In the increasingly severe healthcare industry environment, the key to a hospital’s survival is to make a concentrated, efficient investment in medical resources, raising the quality of care and reducing the risk of medical accidents, and increasing patient satisfaction with hospital stay periods that bring effective results.
While ensuring fundamental performance, we have created an original, stable hospital style, one that emphasizes the “needs of society” = “patient’s point of view” making up the client’s broader context. Revisiting that original spirit, a major theme going forward will be to design hospital buildings flexible to both continuity and change, adapting to a stock-oriented society in which environmental considerations and sustainability are central values.